COVID Confessatorium | Kinari Council
Kinari Council created this COVID Confessatorium to allow participants to submit anonymous confessions virtually from anywhere.
You are invited to clear your head and get your heavy burdens off your chest!
The original Confessatorium was created by resident artist Amber PB in 2008. Museum guests have been writing confessions in notebooks for 13 years inside the Confessatorium booth. For Elsewhere’s Fort Night event on 12.18.20, Kinari read a selection of confessions live on Zoom from inside the booth.
“This was all nearly 13 years ago. I had no idea that the Confessatorium was still around (Elsewhere being such a transforming space) until I received communication from Kinari Council, a current resident at Elsewhere, that the piece was very much still alive and well, and being used regularly by visitors and residents to Elsewhere. Kinari read a collection of written confessions, from behind the curtain of the Confessatorium for an all-night fundraising event over zoom. He shared sometimes tender, heartbreaking, funny and puzzling confessions with a metered and caring cadence. Kinari took this project further, in creating the Covid Confessatorium, an online space for people to share confessions, thoughts, dreams and musings, anonymously, online. I am overjoyed that this piece is still finding an audience, and hope that it has provided some solace for those who have sat behind the curtain in that velvet upholstered chair, over the years.” -Amber PB in 2021
Kinari read a first batch of COVID Confessatorium confessions at the Shelter Elsewhere Happening on 2/26/21.
For Extravaganza 2021: Departures & Arrivals, at small gatherings in people’s homes, a Confessatorium sign will hang on a bathroom door, inviting participants to submit anonymous confessions from their phones away from the group. Select submissions will be read aloud at the Terminal E Parties (both S. Elm St. and Zoom).
